Dr. Theda's Crypt: Classic Movie Monsters

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Happy Hunchback Day....

... image from "Classic Movie Monsters...) Many great images there !!!
The Birthday of the great writer Victor Hugo (creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame)...

(Complete with the heavy rubber "Hump" and the membrane from an egg shell as the "blind Eye" effect... Chaney gave a truly Great performance in this silent film....

And Lon Chaney's Performance of this Classic...

Friday, April 7, 2017

Frankenstein.....

as we said Frankenstein was the name of the Doctor who created the Monster...
Peter Cushing was the mad Doctor we watched as a kid... (having just been released to television)...

The best source for "digging up" images of Frankenstein (as well as other Universal Monsters... is
Classic Movie Monsters

But, Thomas Edison made the first Film version of this tale by Mary Shelly, back in 1910....

Monster was played by Charles Oggle (from Ohio)

Friday, February 5, 2016

Hope that You are Having a Pleasant Friday....

Dracula (Bela Lugosi) is the Movie Monster that we are currently posting....

A few more images.... for Many more great images ... check out "Classic Movie Monsters"....

His was the model used by most whenever people think of "Dracula"...

A great painting by Basil Gogos....
Aurora Monster Models dracula

Still have a 1980 re-issue of this great kit...

Back later with more of the great Monsters of Universal Studios....

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

A bit More with Frankenstein....

Hello and Good Morning....

will try to get a bit more rest in a bit...

Nothing like a bit of high voltage electricity to start your day....

Seems that Universal has pulled all clips of this 85 year old film... so much for 50 years till a "Copyright" ends.... all thanks to that moron in office and his damned CAS ....

Above is a tribute to the make-up design of Jack Pierce... enjoy....

More Universal Classic Movie Monsters to come....

.... we will begin on their (1931) "Dracula" later... as performed by the great Bela Lugosi....
But the "Frankenstein's Monster" has come to be Universal's Best known and most popular "Movie Monster"... and Jack Pierce's make-up design for Boris Karloff ("neck-bolts" and flat head...) Thus this "Creature" has become world renowned an easily recognized "Monster" , recognizable by young and old the world over....

The old Frankenstein Monster (or Skeleton) were ordered from a comic book and hung upon the inside of kids rooms in the early 70's...

For lots of great images of this Universal Studio's Monster and Many others... Check out "Classic Movie Monsters" ... a truly great blog for fans of Horror films...

Monday, February 1, 2016

Universal's First Movie Monster....

though some would claim his "Quasimodo" as one as well, Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera" was their First big monster ("Mon-Star"...???)

the "unmasking"scene really scared many movie-goers....

He went to great lengths to obtain the right "look" for the role....

the "Man of a Thousand Faces"....

Went to Bed Much Earlier....

and still cannot Sleep...
kept on waking up ... now Awake at 6:00am, with No chance of More Rest for now...
even took a nerve pill ( my med with an added Sleep ingredient) cannot take Valium or Zanex they will knock me out ... Last time it put me into a long sleep that lasted well over 40 hours... that is a bit too Much sleep....

Hope that you good folks are well this Monday (and first day of the Month)....

Been at Spore most of the weekend... Learned even more about the many aspects of game-play in this wonderful Universe.... And these "Adventurers" Reminds me of writing up games for D&D... and then can change a few "elements" of that Game , and have an New game.... cool... making at least several parts of a much longer story-line... so the "possibilities" are limitless....

And more of "Monday's Monster" ... sorry that Life situations got in the way of late...
... those "problems" should be over , for now.... And many other issues to worry over remain... but, we are in much better spirits than usual.... so we take what "good" that we can and try to enjoy...

Probably going with the Universal Monsters for this month...
They tend to be the most recognizable to people...

And having Not gotten last Monday's Monster posts done ... we will have a bit more on one of my Favorite Monsters... "Poor Erik" (as the Author would often say insisting that He was a Real Person dwelling in the deep passages far below the grand Paris opera house...) So maybe the Phantom of the Opera was a bit more Real than we believed...